Catalogus Librorum 1681 (1 results)

Amstelodami (Amsterdam), 1681, in-12°, 18 x 10 cm, untrimmed copy. Title + (1)(bl) + (38) pp. Bound in old but not contemporary half leather, gilt title on back, marbled endpapers. Printed on laid-paper with watermark ( 'three spheres, diameter ca. 7 mm, touching each other and topped by a right-angled triangle with a height of ca. 10 mm). See Willems 20 ; Berghman 2002. The Berghman catalogue (note at n° 2002) estimates that only 4 or 5 copies are still in existence., We collated our copy against the BM copy. It looks as if our copy is from a previous imprint. It has been used as a proof copy and bears the manuscript ink marks of a professional corrector; e.g. pp A3 Bassecourt, Sermons de Pieté =/Piété ; Baxter.pecheurs =/pécheurs ; pp A4 Calvifii =/Calvisii. Page A9recto :*histoire de l'Eucharistie, 8. This last entry has been changed in (format) 4. (Correction as it appears in the BM copy). Most of the corrections have been taken over by the British Museum copy. According the previous owner, in the 19th century the catalogue belonged to a French collector named De Viry from the neighbourhood of Rodez. Willems (n°20) states in his description that this catalogue is extremely rare. As pointed out above our copy seems to be from an imprint which preceded Willems 20. We reckon this copy to be of the utmost rarety - perhaps unique !! We add to our copy the CD-Rom with the BM copy. We also add the very rare reprint made in 1823 by J. Motteley, printed by Firmin Didot, in 100 copies only. Incidently this reprint corresponds exactly with the BM imprint.